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Chap. 49 •• EngHjh Herbs. 
VII. The 'limes. They Hower in May 
and June , and the Seed is ripe in the 
Months following, or towards the end of 
Summer. 
VIII. As to the Qualities , Specification , P/r- 
parations , and Virtues of thefe Plants, Au- 
thors have laid as good as nothing, at molt, 
have been very fparing concerning rhe fame : 
hut they have been generally eaten as a Boiled 
Sallet, being boiled with Beef, Mutton, or Pork, 
and then dreft up with Oil, or Butter, Pep- 
per, Salt, and Vinegar: This Sallet has been 
a common Food for Nurfes, becaufe it nor 
only increafed , but alfo bred Milk in Nur- 
fes Breads \ and tor which purpole it is now 
lo dreft, and eaten at this Day. 
chap, ccccxci. 
Of M I L L E T. 
I. 'T' H E Names. It is called in Arn- 
_L _ bick , Hareomen , Geguers , and Gi- 
avers: in Greek, Kiyxs&, UaeMn, j 
Galen 'r. in Latine , Milium ( a Miliaria Sum- 
mit derivatum ait Feftus: Adeline , as Varro 
thinks; tut both Diofcoriies and Galen make 
Adeline , to be Panicum ; alio Pafpilos Pf 
Pa/pi/e : in Englijh, Millet. 
II. The Kinds. Authors make three feve- 
tal Species hereof, viz. r. Milium vulgar e al- 
bum, Common white Millet. 2. Milium vul- 
gare nigrum , Common black Millet. 3. Mi- 
lium lndicum Mattbioli-, Milium Turcicum-, 
Milium Sarafenicum Fuchjij ; Melica Dodo’- 
7imi ; Sorgho , C Sorghum halorum Lobelij ; 
Panicum lndicum Gefneri ; Panicum Dio/co- 
ridis £5* P/inij Trago : Indian or Turkey 
Millet. 
"the Descriptions. 
III. X be firjl, or Common white Millet. 
It has a bujhy Root which fpreads M felf 
round, in the Earth , and perijbes every Pear 
after Seed times, as the Roots of other Grain 
do. From this Root rife up feveral hard joint- 
ed tali Stalks, full of a white Pith, yet loft, 
arid a little Hairy or Downy on the outlide’ 
with long and large Reed like Leaves at 
them, encompalling one another: at the tops 
of the Stalks are a great number of whitifh 
yellow long Spriggs like Feathers, bowing 
down their Heads; fet all along with white 
Seed , incloled in a whitifh Husk , which 
being taken out, are of a Ihining pale, yel- 
lowilh or whitilh color, fomerhing hard, 
and a little larger than the Seed of ilea- 
vunt. 
Gcmman X $ f £ g f. 
IV. The fecond , or Common black Mil- 
let- . This , m i,s Roon > Stal Leaves, 
Head, and manner of growing , differs very 
little from the former : faving that it is 
fomewhat lefs with us, and that the Juba or 
Tuft is brownilh, and the whole Plume or 
Head more loofe and large, the Seed or 
Grain is alfo fomewhat bigger, and of a black- 
ifh fhining color. 
V. The third , or Indian, or Turky Millet. 
The Root of this bufhes out more than the 
others , and perifhes every Tear after Seeding 
cis the others do. This Plant is in all its parts 
